Sixteen seconds later, he was hurled headfirst in their direction.
The moment he opened it, he was hurled back 12ft and smashed against a chest of drawers.
Two days later he was hurled across the cabin and broke a rib.
As he was hurled down the line to safety, Lock shouted 'thank you' to each soldier.
Shoved into command only three days before the battle, Meade had scarcely enough time to take up the reins before he was hurled into battle.
"It was just storm and fire," said Ahmed Said, 22, who said he was stirring his tea and ordering flavored tobacco at a cafe when he was hurled into the air.
He was hurled face forward onto the ground, mashing his face, breaking his nose and a dental plate, and hitting his head with such force that he began bleeding inside his cranium.
Kostadin Yankov, 19, a biochemistry student at Oxford University, was killed on Nov. 24 when he fell short of a safety net as he was hurled 100 feet from a catapult at a water park near Bridgwater, Somerset.
His first ambition was to be a race-car driver, and it was only after he was nearly killed in a terrible accident, when he was eighteen — he lived because his seat belt unaccountably broke and he was hurled free of the car — that his interest shifted to film.
But when he had ridden about twenty yards past the point where he first came in sight, there was a burst of machine-gun fire from a copse thirty yards in front of him, joined immediately by a burst from a vegetable field to one side, and he was hurled off his bicycle into a ditch a yard from the road.
